Download the CPD Plus Seminar Series 2012–2013 brochure and registration form

Jersey International Business School already has a reputation for delivering high quality training solutions. The CPD Plus Seminar Series has a legacy of providing essential updates for professionals delivered by internationally recognised experts. This series will comprise of twelve monthly sessions including ten seminars of 50-60 minutes followed by a 15 minute Q&A, plus two highlight events, a film screening and a debate.

Timings

Seminars

4pm-5.15pm (Registration 3.45pm)
The Celestial Hall North,
Royal Yacht Hotel, St Helier

Film

7.30pm-10pm (Registration 7pm)
The Jersey Arts Centre, St Helier

Cost

595 (plus GST) per delegate, for all 12 sessions

Benefits

• Flexibility. Delegate places are inter-changeable between employees of the same organisation.
• For every 5 delegates booked an additional delegate may attend for free.
• Tried and tested format. In the regular seminars at the Royal Yacht Hotel each speaker will talk for 50-60 minutes followed by a 15 minute interview and an ‘open floor’ Q&A session. Questions may be submitted in advance.
• Two new ways to gain essential CPD:
  • Film & discussion with Paul Moore at The Jersey Arts Centre. Delegates are invited to bring a guest to the Jersey Arts Centre, at no extra cost.
  • OFC Debate between Nicholas Shaxson and Richard Hay.
• Hard copies of speakers’ notes/slides provided at each seminar – subject to availability.
• Certificates of attendance for each session.
• 2012-2013 speakers at 2011 prices.

16th May Nicola Harvey

Group Risk Director
Christie’s the Auction House
Opportunities and Risks Presented by Emerging Economy Wealth

Nicola Harvey is Group Risk Director at Christie’s International plc, the global art auction house. Her role at Christie’s encompasses group wide risk management – managing the identification, assessment and control of global risks, setting and implementing group strategies for risk management and appropriate controls including managing all Christie’s internal and external insurance arrangements. Nicola is also responsible for the Group’s internal audit function. Nicola held similar roles at Lloyds TSB and at Cable & Wireless plc and prior to that at global engineering firm Kidde International. Nicola also spent a number of years working at broker Willis. Nicola is immediate past Chairman of Airmic, the UK Association of Risk and Insurance Managers.

13th June Barry Faudemer

Director, Enforcement
JFSC
Lessons for Industry from Recent Enforcement Action

Barry Faudemer is the Director Enforcement at the Jersey Financial Services Commission and has been at the forefront of developing the Commission's enforcement capability and the increased use of regulatory powers over the last few years. In the role, Barry overseas the Commission's receipt and use of intelligence working closely with all other Divisions within the Commission to identify trends and developments. Prior to joining the Commission in 2007 Barry completed 26 years with the States of Jersey Police and as the Head of the Joint Financial Crimes Unit in 2006 graduated from the FBI National Academy having studied financial crime and the the financing of terrorism. Barry holds the ICA AML Diploma (dist) and the IoD Diploma in Corporate Direction"

4th July Paul Moore (at the Jersey Arts Centre)

The HBOS Whistleblower
Screening of ‘Inside Job’
Documentary film & discussion with Paul Moore

Paul Moore was the former Head of Group Regulatory Risk at HBOS. He was “dubbed” in the press as “The HBOS Whistleblower”. He was the only senior risk & compliance executive in UK banking sector to speak out publicly in after the financial crisis about what he saw from the inside of a bank.

His influential evidence to the UK Parliamentary Treasury Select Committee in February 2009 was widely publicised in the media worldwide and led directly to the resignation of Sir James Crosby who was then the Deputy Chairman of the Financial Services Authority. Questions were asked in the UK Houses of Parliament.

Paul claimed that Sir James Crosby, when he was the CEO of HBOS, dismissed him as Head of Group Regulatory Risk for reporting that the sales and marketing culture had become markedly out of balance with risk and compliance systems and that the Board should reconsider its continued strategy for sale growth.

15th Aug Peter Lucas

Investment Director
Rathbone Investment Management International
Where Next for the World Markets – Risks and Opportunities?

Peter Lucas is an investment director with Rathbone Investment Management International. Peter manages a range of private client, trust, pension and charity portfolios with a specific focus on fixed income. He sits on the Rathbone fixed income committee and the Jersey investment committee and has over 20 years experience running specialist fixed income and absolute return portfolios. Whilst Peter’s career started in 1987 he joins Rathbones from RBC Wealth Management where he was head of opportunistic strategy. He specialised in fixed income for 17 years, initially with Quilters, and then for Ashburton having managed their conservative Cash and Fixed Income funds. Peter is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment.

5th Sept Chris Usher

Senior Lecturer
Jersey international Business School
How to Structure and Effectively Manage a Trust Investment Portfolio

Chris has over 15 years’ experience in financial services, working both in the UK and offshore, for major financial institutions such as Barclays Wealth and Santander. Chris now specialises in delivering training in investment management, taxation and regulatory issues. Formerly an International Investment Manager he advised both individuals and corporate entities on complex investment scenarios.

Chris has also provided support and advice to financial services companies in response to the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) regulations introduced by the FSA and the RFA by the Jersey Financial Services Commission.

17 Oct John Harris

Director General
JFSC
CDD++ and What it Means for Licence Holders in Practice

John Harris was appointed the Director General of the Commission on 6 November 2006 and subsequently joined the Board of Commissioners on 1 March 2007.

From 2002 to 2006, John Harris held the position of Director - International Finance in the States of Jersey Chief Minister's Department where he had responsibility for all aspects of the government's policy on the maintenance and enhancement of Jersey's position as an international finance centre.

From 1998 to 2002 he was Chief Executive Officer for NatWest Offshore with responsibility for offices in Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Cayman, Bermuda and the Bahamas. He spent 22 years working for NatWest Bank during which time he held management positions in France, Switzerland and Singapore amongst others.

John Harris obtained a BA (Hons) at Exeter University and is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers.

14th Nov Steve Gardener

Chairman
JCOA
The Growing Compliance Burden – A Perspective from Industry

Steve is a Chartered Banker and Chartered Internal Auditor with over over 25 years experience in Financial Services. Following roles in retail banking operations, regulated sales and lending at Lloyds Banking Group, Steve chose to specialise in internal audit and risk management. He has since worked for AXA and Royal Bank of Canada and is currently Head of Risk and Assurance at Ogier LLP. Steve firmly believes that effective risk management is a critical success factor for any high performing business.

12th Dec Stephen Platt

Principal
Stephen Platt & Associates LLP
Examining Directors Duties Through Case Studies

Stephen is the Principal of Stephen Platt & Associates LLP, a firm specialising in Risk and Governance services for the financial services industry. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Law at Georgetown University, Washington D.C., a Director of the Jersey International Business School, practising English Barrister at 23 Essex Street and the founder of the global AML online community, KYC360.

Stephen acts for institutional clients and regulatory authorities globally. With additional expertise in sanctions, he regularly advises some of the world’s largest non-US banks on the risks of criminal and civil liability resulting from breaches of Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions and Anti-Terror Act Legislation.

Stephen’s expertise is recognised by the British Bankers’ Association through which he delivers a range of risk management and sanctions training programmes to the banking industry in the UK.

16th Jan Steve Meiklejohn

Partner
Ogier
Developments in Trust Law Update

Steve is a partner at Ogier and currently Chairman of the Jersey branch of STEP. Steve is heavily involved in advising all of the firm’s major trust company clients on trust and commercial issues as well as on regulatory matters. Steve has expertise in advising on the establishment and administration of complex structures for high net worth clients looking to create comprehensive estate plans for their personal and business assets. In addition, Steve advises on the establishment of employee benefit and pension structures.

13th Feb Alan Binnington

Private Client Director
RBC Wealth Management
What Challenges will Jersey Trust Companies Face in the Future?

Alan Binnington is a Private Client Director of RBC Trust Company (International) Limited. Born in Jersey, he studied law at St. Catharine’s College Cambridge, following which he qualified as an English barrister. On his return to Jersey he qualified as a Jersey Advocate in 1984 . He was a Partner in the Jersey Law firm Mourant du Feu & Jeune from 1985 to 2009, specialising for many years in commercial litigation and the formation and administration of structures for high net worth families. He joined RBC in 2009, following the company’s acquisition of Mourant Private Wealth.

He is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, the Association of Contentious Trust & Probate Specialists and is an Academician of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law. He is one of Jersey’s Law Commissioners and is a member of the governing body of Jersey’s recently formed Institute of Law. He is currently President of the Jersey Association of Trust Companies.

13th March Nicole Svatek

Associate Lecturer
Jersey International Business School
More Human Factors Developments in 2012

Nicole was formerly the Head of Human Factors at Virgin Atlantic Airways. Her remit included flight crew, cabin crew and engineering Human Factors programmes and all internal HF accident and incident investigations. Nicole was one of the original members of the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) Human Factors Committee, and was seconded as their representative to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (the aviation branch of the UN) to become a member of the working group that authored the ICAO Human Factors Digests. She was also one of three authors of the IATA Guidelines in Flight Safety Methodologies in 1991.

10th April Shaxson V Richard Hay Debate

‘Symbiots or Parasites?’
What is the Role of OFCs in the Global Economy?

Nicholas Shaxson is the author of Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World (2011), a bestseller that is being published in 11 languages. He is also an Associate Fellow with Chatham House and works for the Tax Justice Network. He has written extensively in the past for the Financial Times, Economist, Economist Intelligence Unit, Reuters and many others. He is also author of Poisoned Wells: the Dirty Politics of African Oil.